Tuesday, 31 January 2012

In fact, refined with the right amount of gentle touching that sizzles.

Always immaculately dressed, the femme fatale caught up in the ongoing corruption probe is a real head-turner.

The New Paper was the first to report last Wednesday that an IT executive was assisting CPIB with the probe into ex-heads of the Singapore Civil Defence Force Peter Lim and Central Narcotics Bureau Ng Boon Gay.

Businessman Shamsubahrin Ismail claims he was instructed and under pressure to close the case with the police.

PETALING JAYA: National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) chairman Mohamad Salleh Ismail had repeatedly asked businessman Shamsubahrin Ismail to help the former bribe police investigators to close the case on NFCorp, but the latter was reluctant to do so.

This was stated in a police report by Shamsubahrin which was lodged last Friday, a copy of which was produced by PKR leaders at a press conference here today.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. — Apolice officerunderinvestigationfor sexual misconduct with a teenage minor was shot and killed while on duty by fellow officers Saturday as they tried to arrest him on California's central coast, authorities said.

The officer was manning a DUI checkpoint when the shooting occurred shortly after 1 a.m. He was declared dead after emergency surgery at Marian Medical Center, Santa Maria police Chief Danny Macagni said in a statement.

The officer, a four-year Santa Maria department veteran, had just learned of the internal investigation of an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and it became necessary to arrest him immediately, Macagni said.

HONG KONG - A Cathay Pacific steward was attacked by an elderly passenger who tried to barge into the plane's cockpit during the flight.

The cabin crew, a Taiwanese, was hit repeatedly by the 83-year-old man with a walking cane until it broke.

The unruly passenger had to be restrained with the help of other crew members. The injured steward suffered head trauma and vomiting, and had to be stretchered off the plane when it landed in Australia.

Sunday, 29 January 2012

BANGKOK - A huge fireworks explosion at a Chinese New Year celebration in Thailand left four people dead and almost 90 injured, while more than 100 homes were set ablaze, officials said Wednesday.

Authorities believe the blast late Tuesday was caused when flames from a misfiring firework set off a pile of unused rockets at the display in the town of Suphan Buri, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) northwest of Bangkok.

Three male organisers were killed instantly, said local government official Somjate Phromsunthorn, while a female spectator died of her injuries early Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 28 — Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang has indicated his desire to back out from running in the 13th general election despite Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) insistence it will take over federal government.

The PAS president said this was based on the fact that he has been an elected representative for over 30 years although his PR colleagues, including PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, have served for longer.

“I have been a state assemblyman for over 30 years beginning in 1982 and over a decade as an MP,” he told Sinar Harian in an interview.

Saturday, 28 January 2012

This is the shocking moment an innocent bystander was thrown against a moving freight train after remonstrating with a drunk over his foul language.

CCTV footage shows Robert Evans as he asks Daniel Worgan to stop making lewd comments to a group of girls at Shrewsbury railway station in July last year.

Worgan, a lorry driver and father-of-three is seen lifting Mr Evans off his feet, swinging him 180 degrees and hurling him towards the edge of the station platform.

Onlookers then rush to the 23-year-old’s aid as he bounces off the side of the metal carriages of the moving train.

Sergeant Karl Anderson, of British Transport Police, Shrewsbury, said: "This was a deliberate, violent and totally reckless act which resulted in the victim being inches from death.

"It is clear through the injuries and the trauma of the ordeal that this incident has had a substantial impact on the victim, who thought he was about to die."

Worgan, 24, from Telford, was sentenced to a suspended jail term at Shrewsbury Crown Court on Thursday after admitting endangering the safety of railway passengers.

The court heard it was only pure luck that Mr Evans bounced off the side of the train and landed on the platform rather than being thrown into its path.

Worgan was given a six-month jail sentence suspended for two years and ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work. He was also told to pay £500 compensation and £250 costs and put under a three-month curfew between 8pm and 6am.

Mr Robert Edwards, prosecuting, said Mr Evans was waiting for a train with friends at 11pm on July 29 last year when the incident occurred.

He said: "Worgan threw Mr Evans against a freight train that was moving out of the station. It was only luck that he bounced against the side and didn't fall onto the track."

The court heard how Mr Evans suffered injuries to his back and cuts to his arm and hand during the incident and has since refused to travel on trains.

Mark Sharman, for Worgan, said his client was appalled at his behaviour and had been out drinking to celebrate his birthday.

A sleepy snake came to a rather untimely end after having its head half chewed off by a fearless toddler in an Arab town in northern Israel, the child’s family told AFP on Friday.

Thirteen-month-old Imad Aleeyan, who has six teeth, was found chewing on the head of the 30-centimetre snake by his mother, who alerted the neighbourhood with her screams."I was making his milk and I looked over and saw he had a snake in his mouth," said his mother, Ghadir Aleeyan who lives in the town of Shefa Amr, 15 km east of the port city of Haifa.

Nabbed...Jean-Claude Mas, former head of the now defunct breast implant manufacturer Poly Implant Prothese

Police in France have arrested the former head of a company at the centre of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide.

Jean-Claude Mas, who ran the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese, was detained at his home in the Mediterranean coastal town of Six Fours Les Plages shortly before dawn Friday.A police search of the residence was under way, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is officially in the hands of judicial investigators.The implants were pulled from the market in several countries in and beyond Europe amid fears they could rupture and leak silicone into the body.

A poster released by a South African political party that shows a young interracial couple in a loving embrace has sparked huge debate in the country. The image was released by the student arm of the Democratic Alliance, the nation's opposition party, and distributed around university campuses earlier this week. The image shows a white man and black woman, apparently naked, and has the tagline: In OUR future, you wouldn't look twice.

Somchai "Ae Leuk" Iampaijit, a drug suspect wanted for the death of a woman from whom he stole a motorcycle during a police chase, was killed yesterday in a gunfight with police in Nonthaburi's Bang Bua Thong district.

Somchai, 33, was seen on CCTV footage on Friday apparently running into the street, stopping a Chatuchak Weekend Market vendor who was passing by, shooting her dead and taking off on her motorbike while evading arrest for drug charges.

The suspensions of the chiefs of the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) and the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) resulted from a probe involving the supply of IT-related products and services.

While no money is thought to have changed hands, the close relationship between a certain female IT executive and the two senior officers was a cause for concern, and a complaint was lodged with the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB).